Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eucalyptus macarthurii
Common name
Paddys River box, Camden woollybutt
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Grassy woodland and paddocks on broad cold flats, usually near water. Tablelands and ranges north of Goulburn.
Notes
Tree to 40 m tall. Bark rough on the trunk and branches more than 8 cm diameter, or rough on all but the smallest branches, thick, shortly fibrous, often hard, grey. Smooth bark on the smaller branches shedding in short ribbons. Juvenile stems rounded in cross section, often warty. Juvenile leaves opposite each other and stalkless, 3.5-7 cm long, 25-45 mm wide, dull, grey-green to green. Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 8-18 cm long, 8-25 mm wide, glossy, green. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Flower clusters 7-flowered. Mature flower buds 2.5–5 mm long, caps shorter than or as long as the base. Flowers Summer-Autumn. Gumnuts 3-6 mm in diameter. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have protruding valves or valves that are not very noticeable.
Endangered Australia. Endangered NSW. Provisions of the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.
NSW Threatened Species profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=20037 (accessed 5 January 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~macarthurii (accessed 5 January 2021)
EUCLID description: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_macarthurii.htm (accessed 5 January 2021)
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